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Sanchez fit

So funny if Burnley or Palarse can get a result. Otherwise North London taxi drivers will be unbearable

Seems like a real anti climax. More media coverage over Hearts v Celtic. There hasn’t been an FA Cup final without City or Chelsea in a decade - We have endured mayhem and calamity but may well add this FA Cup to last season’s Europa Conference League and the Club World Cup. Pep could go two consecutive seasons without a league title for the first time in his career, or he could yet win another domestic treble...

Just highlights the shortness of professional football careers - Rashford 3 years younger, and also buying on previous reputation. Thought he was a one trick pony when we bought him tbh. Still hes come out of it a very rich young man - all the cash from us enbled him to buy half million pound watches etc 😅

That 'culture' is leaving 10 minutes before the end nowadays. Never seen that. Even in the 70s and 80s when we were proper shit. Or, if we did leave early it was to ambush their lot outside.

Exactly, and suddenly theyre saying, 'but we had to make a difficult choice - and we believe Gary O neil/Christain Gross/Pinnochio is the candidate to take Chelsea Franchise Cowboys to the next level'

True. And using five Sporting Directors to spy on each other and report back to the owners is a typical divide and rule tactic. 5 Sporting Directors, 8 managers, 55 players....Blueco model One Step Beyond...

The problem is not just status and lack of European Football. If you look at Guardiola’s success at Manchester City as an example of a manager receiving the players he wanted, contrasting it with situations where coaches are told to work only with what they are given. Without addressing these factors, Chelsea risk narrowing their pool of willing elite candidates. Elite managers do not look favourably on someone pulling their strings.

The job at Stamford Bridge is not nearly as tempting as it used to be, and has pretty much lost its appeal to the very top coaches. The squad isn’t ready to compete at the top, and those coaches won’t get the control they want to change that.

Newcastle surely only saying theyre intersted as a joke

Only if it benefits them. Fans are an inconvenient necessity to them.

You can't trust anything they do now, they've lost any integrity they might have had

Liverpool and Man City must be shitting themselves facing the mighty Chelsea our club has been bought with loans by club abusers

Bet the fat Etonian got a kick back as well

Chelsea have always been very successful in terms of player sales, which have generated far more money for the club than ticket sales over the last decade. ''The 22 Holdco business model is similar to that of a hedge fund in that signing young players on long-term contracts can be very profitable and reduces the chances of players leaving on a Bosman deal for no fee. '' Now that model is pretty well fucked, and everything is threatened, even attracting a new high-profile manager, without Champions League football.